#artistic

Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is so much pleasure in loving that one gladly sacrifices something for its sake. Any one who loves me takes away all my freedom. Anyone who admires me (as a writer) threatens to take it away from me. I even fear those who understand me, which is why I spend so much time covering my tracks - both in my private life and in the persona I express through my books. What would have delighted me, had I loved god, is the thought that god gives nothing in return. ↗

— Henry de Montherlant

#atheism #atheist #freedom #god #writing

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. ↗

— Thomas Wilson

#arts #collage #dilettante #i #photography

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary! ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#artistic-substance #mozart #musical-history #salieri #art

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#artistic #artistic-endeavor #artistic-expression #artistic-freedom #artistic-substance

I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#eccentric #heart #passion #art

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#being #dad #engineer #frivolous #had

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#creativity #ennoble #fame #preserve

Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don't have to dream it all out of thin air. I don't have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes. ↗

— Neil Peart

#air #album #anytime #artistic #creative

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. ↗

— Little Richard

#been #beginning #ever #gay #kicked

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#each #interfere #life #other #personal